Workers of Ireland, why crouch ye like cravens to bear all the burden of bourgeoisie shame?
Why stand to be plucked by an army of ravens or hoodwinked forever by working class blame?
Think on the wrongs you bear, think on the rags you wear
Think on the insults indulged from your birth
Toiling in heat and rain, piling up heaps of gain
All for the landlord that grind ye to earth.
Your brains are as keen as the brains of your masters, in swiftness and strength you surpass them, by far
Your brave hearts have taught you to laugh at disasters, you vastly outnumber your tyrants in war
Why, then, like cowards stand, using not brain nor hand,
Thankful like dogs when they throw you a bone?
What right have they to take things that we toil to make?
Know ye not, comrades, that all is our own?
Despite all the talk of these nation’list traitors who rave about “Ireland” or “Freedom” or worse
Expect not your rights from political praters but faithfully trust in your courage and force
Waste not your ready blows, seek not for foreign foes
Your bitterest enemy is own our own soil.
The bosses that grind you, the salesmen that blind you,
The fat cats that revel while you are at toil.
Arise in our might, comrades, bear it no longer, assemble our masses throughout all the land
We’ll show these bloodsuckers which side is the stronger
when workers in Erin united will stand
Through village, street, and hall, over the acres all
Onwards we’ll sweep like the waves of the sea
Claiming the wealth we’ve made, ending the tyrants’ trade
'Til labour has triumped and Ireland is free!
Claiming the wealth we’ve made, ending the tyrants’ trade
'Til labour has triumped and Ireland is free!
credits
from Like a Tide Upon the Land,
released February 1, 2023
Words by Jim Connell
Tune traditional: O'Donnell Abú
Guitar and vocals by Melanie Gruben
Bodhrán by Rover's Way
Concertina by Susan Ní Cholmáin
Upright bass by Nicolás Ojeda
Tracking engineering by Dominic Chappell
Post-production sound engineering by Cyrus Rua and Tom Waltz
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